Exporting videos from iPhoto

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Exporting videos from iPhoto

For the life of me, I can't figure out a way to export videos which I imported into iPhoto from my camera. I can export it to my desktop but can't export them in a format that I can then import into Vimeo or other video sharing site.

What the heck does a guy gotta do to share his simple .avi videos with others on the Internet?

I tried exporting it from Quicktime too, but sadly, exporting my own video from Quicktime requires that I have a Pro account. Sad but true.

Any help would be appreciated.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iPhoto, Quicktime and Vimeo

Posted on Dec 26, 2008 7:25 PM

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Yer_Man

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Dec 26, 2008 10:53 PM in response to tomoleary

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.

To export a video from iPhoto:

Select the video in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. Set the *Kind: to Original*. This will export your video.

can't export them in a format that I can then import into Vimeo or other video sharing site.

Why? What formats do they require? Do the videos require shifting to a new format?

What the heck does a guy gotta do to share his simple .avi videos with others on the Internet?

Who can tell, when you don’t explain where the procedure breaks down for you.

I tried exporting it from Quicktime too, but sadly, exporting my own video from Quicktime requires that I have a Pro account. Sad but true.

Why is that sad? When you export from Quicktime you are shifting formats or otherwise editing the video.

Regards

TD

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tomoleary Author

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Dec 27, 2008 1:52 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks for replying. As I said, I can export to my desktop, but when I do File/Export, it appears to export a file that is only 100k. When I open that file from my desktop, it launches a quicktime window and I can view the video. But when I try to upload that file from my desktop to Vimeo, it fails because it's not the full .avi (2mb) file that is in iPhoto. I imagine that exporting the video from iPhoto actually just creates a shortcut on my desktop that reads the file from iPhoto.

When I export per your instructions, the export takes about 2 seconds, which makes me believe that it is only exporting a shortcut to the iPhoto video.

I want to export the full, complete .avi video.

Thanks.

Tom

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tomoleary Author

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Dec 27, 2008 1:57 PM in response to Yer_Man

Sorry Terrence. I hadn't been putting the export option to original. Thanks for helping with that!

You're the man.

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Jan 20, 2009 5:56 AM in response to tomoleary

Many thanks both of you!!
I was almost loosing my last hairs in trying to export the video's from iPhoto.
To be quite honest; the difference between "Current" and "Original" is not what I would describe as obvious, hopefully the iLife '09 iPhoto version handles this better, or at least explains it in the help file.

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